Moods of the Mountain

The rules: Photos of Mount Wellington taken from my balcony.

There are plenty of other places I can and will take photos of the mountain, but they will appear elsewhere. These ones have to be taken from home. They pretty much appear in reverse chronological order (so the one at the top is usually the most recent). Some of them are not particularly good photos, but the idea is that they capture the many and varied moods displayed by the mountain.

More recent photos:
Most recent
Sep 2016 - Jul 2017

There are separate pages of older photos as well:
Mar 2015 - Jun 2015
Sep 2014 - Jan 2015
Jan 2014 - Aug 2014
May 2013 - Dec 2013

Nov 2011 - Nov 2012

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24 June 2016. Snow and shadows in the early morning sun.

 

20 June 2016. A nice thick slow-moving Bridgewater Jerry obscured much of the
mountain for most of the morning.

11 June 2016. After an initial dumping of a snow, another cold front comes through
and deposits a little more. The three photos were taken over a 1.5 hour period.

3 June 2016. The Bridgewater Jerry is back on a cold and frosty morning.

28 May 2016. A gloomy winter evening after what had been a pleasantly sunny day.

15 May 2016. A big fluffy cloud gets caught on the summit.

4 May 2016. A very abrupt end to our extended summer.
I love the abrupt demarcation of the snow-line.

 

29 March 2016. Autumn sunset. We've had quite some Indian summer this year.

 

2 February 2016. Cloud-shrouded summit.

 

5 November 2015. Smoke haze from controlled fuel-reduction burns.

26 October 2015. This hasn't undergone any processing, but I love the black-and-white
feel to it. The second shot gives a bit more context, showing what is actually mountain.

3 October 2015. A muted mountain: overcast but with a flatness to the clouds.

17 August 2015. One of the heaviest falls of the 2015 winter.

 

6 - 8 August 2015. Three successive views of the snow over three days,
from freshly fallen to fading away.

 

More recent photos:
Most recent
Sep 2016 - Jul 2017

There are separate pages of older photos as well:
Mar 2015 - Jun 2015
Sep 2014 - Jan 2015
Jan 2014 - Aug 2014
May 2013 - Dec 2013

Nov 2011 - Nov 2012

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Photos taken by Helen Chick.